Science and public health principles used to reduce road deaths

L.S. Robertson

American Journal of Public Health, 2014, vol. 104, issue 12, 2256-2258

Abstract: An editorial in a previous issue of this journal falsely claims that the US government's efforts toreduceroad fatalities are not based on science. It says that, as a result, the United States has fallen behind other countries in road death prevention. A large body of research and evaluation informed federal and state safety programs fromthe outset. Evans's comparisons of death trends among countries without adjustment for changes in relevant risk factors or specification of the injury reduction policies among the countries tell us nothing about the causes of the declines or the effects of specific ameliorative efforts. © 2013 American Public Health Association.

Keywords: human; mortality; traffic accident, Accidents, Traffic; Humans (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302352

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